Romantic Women...?

Crumble Froo

alright, we have a thread about how our menfolk spoil us, so let's turn the tables...

what do we actually do for them?

Everything.

ApeXaviour

hah

Crumble Froo

*cough*

such as....?

Black Swan

Pen a bit of poetry, lacing it with things personal of him and you together.

Make him a candlelight dinner of his favourite foods and drink, with you as dessert.

Share an ocean sunset with him after a walk hand-in-hand on the beach.

Sing a ballad of love to him while snuggling at his side before a night beach fire.

Sangre

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Pen a bit of poetry, lacing it with things personal of him and you together.

Make him a candlelight dinner of his favourite foods and drink, with you as dessert.

Share an ocean sunset with him after a walk hand-in-hand on the beach.

Sing a ballad of love to him while snuggling at his side before a night beach fire.

Man....you totally 'get' men.

ApeXaviour

Good lord! I have to side with Sangre. Think Blue_Lagoon... think what you're suggesting, would you think it romantic if he brought you to a football match?

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Pen a bit of poetry, lacing it with things personal of him and you together.

Make him a candlelight dinner of his favourite foods and drink, with you as dessert.

Share an ocean sunset with him after a walk hand-in-hand on the beach.

Sing a ballad of love to him while snuggling at his side before a night beach fire.

No. 2 is the only one there that is in any way half decent (not just because sex at the end, any of them could have that).

Lands Leaving

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Pen a bit of poetry, lacing it with things personal of him and you together.

Make him a candlelight dinner of his favourite foods and drink, with you as dessert.

Share an ocean sunset with him after a walk hand-in-hand on the beach.

Sing a ballad of love to him while snuggling at his side before a night beach fire.

Only the meal impresses me! But you should have him for dessert, if you get me!

Actually I'm sure the ocean would be nice.

Kernel

What about steak and blowjob day eh ladies?

Black Swan

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Good lord! I have to side with Sangre. Think Blue_Lagoon... think what you're suggesting, would you think it romantic if he brought you to a football match?

Yes! If it included a pre-game tail-gate party with B-B-Q, he brought me cool ones on a hot day, and we cheered, hugged, and kissed when our team scored!

narco

narco wrote: »

*cough*

such as....?

Now I am going to make a massive generalisation here, I don't expect it to apply to everyone, so don't shoot me .

We nurture men. We demonstrably care for them everyday.
In hundreds of little ways that they tend to neglect when they are just looking after themselves.
That is romance. Exclude the whole competitive element. That’s what your bunch of roses; candlelit treasure trail etc is doing for you. Letting you know they actually care.

ApeXaviour

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Yes! If it included a pre-game tail-gate party with B-B-Q, he brought me cool ones on a hot day, and we cheered, hugged, and kissed when our team scored!

God, the cheese doesn't stop with you does it.

Kodak moments don't exist except retrospectively in the mentally deficient.

monkeyfudge

I had a girlfriend who made me a sock monkey once... that made me happy.

ApeXaviour

Moonbaby wrote: »

We nurture men. We demonstrably care for them everyday.In hundreds of little ways that they tend to neglect when they are just looking after themselves.
That is romance.

I have to say, you make a point. It's pretty cool getting your collar/tie fixed by your significant other as you rush out the door. Infact, and this is kinda gross, most motherly behaviour a girlfriend exhibits is kinda nice. But if what you say is assumed true, then romance is very much dying.

Lands Leaving

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I had a girlfriend who made me a sock monkey once... that made me happy.

Happy how.....

The Real B-man

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I had a girlfriend who made me a sock monkey once... that made me happy.

Awww Bless its the little things in life lol

Black Swan

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Kodak moments don't exist except retrospectively in the mentally deficient.

You are a qualified authority to make such assessments? From the "emic" perspective?

monkeyfudge

Actually.. now that I think of it.. I pretty much have some form of monkey given to me from every girl I've been in a major realtionship with...

I really don't know why they think I'd be into that sort of thing... but there you go.

Crumble Froo

oh please! i've seen you in a toyshop! anything even resembling a monkey and it takes hours to drag you away.

tallaght01

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Pen a bit of poetry, lacing it with things personal of him and you together.

Make him a candlelight dinner of his favourite foods and drink, with you as dessert.

Share an ocean sunset with him after a walk hand-in-hand on the beach.

Sing a ballad of love to him while snuggling at his side before a night beach fire.

Weren't you in, like, dawsons creek or something?

Black Swan

tallaght01 wrote: »

Weren't you in, like, dawsons creek or something?

Yes! But you haven't seen my scenes yet. They will be exclusively featued in the "bloopers" section when they release the uncut series collector's edition.

How is jet lag, by the way? Back to normal, or does your body still think it's halfway around the world?

tallaght01

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Yes! But you haven't seen my scenes yet. They will be exclusively featued in the "bloopers" section when they release the uncut series collector's edition.

How is jet lag, by the way? Back to normal, or does your body still think it's halfway around the world?

Hi Bluey :P

Jetlag is killing me.

.Been managing to stay awake until about 11pm every night. Then had an amazing close family and frineds christmas party on saturday. Was up til 3am. Since then my body clock has gone all over the shop.

It's 7.30am here, and I've been up since 4am!!!Thank god i have a DVD box set of "24" that I bought the other day. So, I've 24 hours of DVD TV to keep me occupied in the small hours.

Was in bed at 8pm last night.

I need to get back to the Southern hemisphere quick!!

Black Swan

tallaght01 wrote: »

I need to get back to the Southern hemisphere quick!!

Never been to NZ. Everyone tells me it's an island paradise in the Pacific. Lucky you! How could you leave it for our wet and cold island (then again, you are in Scotland, part of another wet and cold island)? I can just imagine the opportunities for romance* in NZ on the warm northern island beaches, or in a hot tub after skiing in the southern mountains?

Then again, someone is bound to accuse me of making some more romantic "cheese." That it is pure fantasy and not real... Oh, but what passionate fun they are missing! If life is but a stage upon which we all play our roles, I choose to be one of two romantic fools playing the game of love.






(*Oh, and I am not referring to the 10 million sheep and all the jokes between lads).

tallaght01

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Never been to NZ. Everyone tells me it's an island paradise in the Pacific. Lucky you! How could you leave it for our wet and cold island (then again, you are in Scotland, part of another wet and cold island)? I can just imagine the opportunities for romance* in NZ on the warm northern island beaches, or in a hot tub after skiing in the southern mountains?

Then again, someone is bound to accuse me of making some more romantic "cheese." That it is pure fantasy and not real... Oh, but what passionate fun they are missing! If life is but a stage upon which we all play our roles, I choose to be one of two romantic fools playing the game of love.






(*Oh, and I am not referring to the 10 million sheep and all the jokes between lads).

I'm not in Scotland. Worked there until last August, but haven't been able to change the location on my profile, for some unknown technical reason.

I'm back in Tallaght for the christmas. Although New Zealand is amazing, it's not home. And you can't have a proper crimbo in the sunshine. It's just not right.

I do admire your romantic ways. It's not that I think it's neccesarily fantasy...it's just I'm no good at it

For, example, I don't do cuddling and kissing at football games LOL

I also spent my "romantic" time on the warm northern Island beaches trying to kidnap penguins

ApeXaviour

Take the OTness to PM please.

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

You are a qualified authority to make such assessments?

Yes. In my final year thesis I compared people's rationale to their ability to empathise with hollywood drip. Come off it... It's a cyclic and subjective definition, like "all people who take heroin are fools".

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

From the "emic" perspective?

Less of the linguistic jargon. I'll classify it a little more generally for you if you wish.
Let's define a Kodak Moment: An unfathomably garish, mutual display of sentiment; such that one would have to be of deprived mental capacity (i.e. drunk or otherwise lacking in reason) not to recognise it as such and automatically stop taking it seriously.

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

If life is but a stage upon which we all play our roles, I choose to be one of two romantic fools playing the game of love.

*vomit*

Look... I'm not saying romance doesn't exist, just that I wish your trite unrealistic version of it didn't pollute people's minds as much as it does.

tallaght01

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Take the OTness to PM please.

Yes. In my final year thesis I compared people's rationale to their ability to empathise with hollywood drip. Come off it... It's a cyclic and subjective definition, like "all people who take heroin are fools".

Less of the linguistic jargon. I'll classify it a little more generally for you if you wish.
Let's define a Kodak Moment: An unfathomably garish, mutual display of sentiment; such that one would have to be of deprived mental capacity (i.e. drunk or otherwise lacking in reason) not to recognise it as such and automatically stop taking it seriously.

*vomit*

Look... I'm not saying romance doesn't exist, just that I wish your trite unrealistic version of it didn't pollute people's minds as much as it does.

Dude, just coz you don't do kodak monent romance, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It also doesn't mean it shouldn't happen.

Like I said before, I'm ****e at it, but I know lots of couples who are mad into it. Poems and roses and all that stuff flying through the gaff.

LIve and let live, as they say.

And the ,erm, "mentally deficient" are entitled to their kodak monents

Star Lord

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Take the OTness to PM please.

Yes. In my final year thesis I compared people's rationale to their ability to empathise with hollywood drip. Come off it... It's a cyclic and subjective definition, like "all people who take heroin are fools".

Less of the linguistic jargon. I'll classify it a little more generally for you if you wish.
Let's define a Kodak Moment: An unfathomably garish, mutual display of sentiment; such that one would have to be of deprived mental capacity (i.e. drunk or otherwise lacking in reason) not to recognise it as such and automatically stop taking it seriously.

*vomit*

Look... I'm not saying romance doesn't exist, just that I wish your trite unrealistic version of it didn't pollute people's minds as much as it does.

Pollute peoples minds? Come off it! There is nothing wrong with being able to have such moments and to enjoy them for exactly what they are, moments of sheer romanticism and love. For you to say that such a thing is trite and only enjoyable by the "mentally deficient" simply because you don't like them is insulting to everyone who likes to do something that is simply old fashioned romance at it's core.

Quality

I always snuggle into him every night and kiss him good night and tell him I love him.


I let him watch the football on the widescreen instead of sending him into the playroom to watch it....

I send him I love you texts to him....

and sometimes I even get the oul kinky gear out for him:eek::eek:

Solarball10

I:

-wash/iron his creased jeans
-give him some kind of pleasure if I'm not in the mood for a shag
-mop up his sick whenever he stumbles in from a night out
-buy him lovely pressies

Oh there's probably loads more, but yeah, I'm the best gf in the world lol.

tallaght01

Jaysus, there's a lot of this romanticks stuff goin on, isn't there??

I must have been dating total dragons all my life

Jesus Wept

Quality wrote: »

I let him watch the football on the widescreen instead of sending him into the playroom to watch it....

WoW. Romance isn't dead. :rolleyes:

WindSock

I have been known to make him a vegemite sangwich from time to time.

CathyMoran

I constantly send him romantic texts and mails and I cry when I hear a song that reminds me of him on the radio - I also tell him that I love him all the time.

Nightwish

Tell him everyday how much I love him, bring him out for meals, romantic nights in, weekends away, showering him with gifts and he knows I will basically do anything for him.

monkeyfudge

WindSock wrote: »

I have been known to make him a vegemite sangwich from time to time.

Do you sing that Men at Work song while you make the sandwich? That would be cool.

Piste

Turn up at his house naked.





With dinner.

watna

WindSock wrote: »

I have been known to make him a vegemite sangwich from time to time.

+1. Even though Vegemite makes me gag. Those kiwis, eh?

*Page*

Wake him in the morning with a cup of tea clean socks and jocks...
Come home to him make his dinner
get naughty
have dinner
tidy up make tea
get naughty
cuddle do washing
get naughty
make tea
go to bed
get naughty...



I do that but not in a slave way...

I surprise him to special meals, day's out or in...

buy him lovely things...

The best thing he said is i dont nag him to do stuff but let him do it in his own time...

Star Lord

Can we clone you please?

takola

tallaght01 wrote: »

Jaysus, there's a lot of this romanticks stuff goin on, isn't there??

I must have been dating total dragons all my life

Nope I think it's the women in here that are the exception!

I wouldn't class anything I do for him as romantic now to be honest, I don't think either of us have a romantic bone in our bodies!!

Although, I do most of what has been listed, But I just think these are the things you do in a relationship!

ditto what page said about the getting naughty part

I buy lingerie very so often at least once a month
I'll ask him every so often what he wants me to wear on a night out just so he can visualise removing it later
take turns getting the pizza in
I get him drunk

stratospheres

Pretty much the same stuff here!

lezizi

I'm not very romantic but I make him tea and have a joint rolled for him when he comes in from college, he really appreciates that.
I watch every soccor match thats on with him, we do fantasy football together so i have to watch to see how my team is doing.
Our nights out together involve playing poker with all his friends, oh and i like boxing so he gets to watch whatever boxing is on.
And i carried his baby for 9 months and gave birth to him, and look after him all day. Thats the most romantic thing i can do.

Piste

I show enough concern to make him feel loved but not so much that he feels stifled...though I'm not sure if that's really "romantic"...



I bought him christmas boxers, does that count?

Jesus Wept

Piste wrote: »

I show enough concern to make him feel loved but not so much that he feels stifled...though I'm not sure if that's really "romantic"...



I bought him christmas boxers, does that count?

Piste wrote: »

Turn up at his house naked.





With dinner.

^^^^^^

You already won here

*Page* wrote: »

Wake him in the morning with a cup of tea clean socks and jocks...
Come home to him make his dinner
get naughty
have dinner
tidy up make tea
get naughty
cuddle do washing
get naughty
make tea
go to bed
get naughty...



I do that but not in a slave way...

I surprise him to special meals, day's out or in...

buy him lovely things...

The best thing he said is i dont nag him to do stuff but let him do it in his own time...

Though Page sounds great too.

Jules

On the way home on fridays, or if im not in till late i go before work and make sure the following are there for him when he gets home...

Beer, Ciggies, Firebag, so he isn't cold. Jellies, cuz he loves them. Also will stop off at his favourite chinese place on the way home and pick up foods.

Also Bought him a PS3 for his birthday in august, but like 2 weeks after we were broken into and they stole the it. He rang me in work and was really pissed off but not mad like. So Arrived home 5 hours after he had rang me to tell me with another one.

mollybird

god well lets just start with we always tell them how we feel about them, we leave them little things they like, like their current fav chocolate bar on the locker, we put out their laundry to dry while they in work, we mind them when they sick, we do things that we know they would like and we always dress in outfits we know they love. i could go on for days girls....

tallaght01

Jules wrote: »

Beer, Ciggies, Firebag, so he isn't cold.

I've just noticed this....and....what the hell is a firebag??? :P
It sounds dangerous lol

Pyjamarama

Make him chicken soup and give him sympathy even when he's not really sick.
Buy him presents I know he'd like.
Give him a hug if he's down (I do this all the times anyway! i know how men LOVE to cuddle!)
Do the organisational paperwork stuff/housework he hates doing.
Make an effort in the bedroom

I duno, general normal stuff, nothing I've written seems romantic actually ... hmm

Pyjamarama

tallaght01 wrote: »

I've just noticed this....and....what the hell is a firebag??? :P
It sounds dangerous lol

Is it one of those firelog type things?!! They come in bags thus FIREBAG!! Sounds like a weapon or an interesting game along the lines of Fireball!

jellie

Do men want romance..? as someone said, dont they prefer the naughty stuff? isnt that the equivalence of romance for men? hehe